[cma-l] From Dom Chambers, Somer Valley FM

Fri Oct 23 09:29:15 BST 2015

Dom

Thank you for all you have done for Community Radio. We wish you every
success for your future projects.

Ray Godby
Operations Director/
Head of Production
Vice Chairman Huntingdon Carnival Committee

On 23 October 2015 at 09:18, CMA-L <cma-l at commedia.org.uk> wrote:

> To CMA members,
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> This is to let you know that yesterday I stepped down as chair of the CMA.
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> It has been an extraordinarily rewarding and life changing experience
> working with the CMA. I have met amazing people making a fantastic
> difference through community media. We are a vibrant and growing
> phenomenon that is all the richer for its grass roots base. The media
> establishment is trying to work out what it is all about. As it juggles
> attitudes ranging from admiration to outright horror I strongly sense that
> appetites across all arenas, the wider public to governing circles, are
> growing for our positive force for social change or media with ‘good stuff’
> as I like to put it. As society tries to make sense of us and we build our
> presence in the media landscape there has never been a greater need for the
> CMA. We must all help it to grow and I wish my colleagues on Council well
> with their work leading on achieving this. I’d like to make special mention
> of Bill Best whose dedication and support of our members is exemplary.
> Without Bill there wouldn’t be a CMA. Support him to support us as we all
> go about the vital business of delivering community media.
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> Visiting and talking with our members has been the most rewarding part of
> my work with the CMA. It is pretty obvious but those conversations confirm
> that funding is the principal challenge for our sector. For some time I
> have been increasingly focussed on finding funding solutions. This work has
> now reached the point where I need to give more time to realising the
> ambition of building a dedicated foundation charity. That is why I need to
> now step away from the chairs role. I think there is much to be learned
> from the Australian model of community radio where the representative
> organisation works in close collaboration with an enabling charity. That
> work will mean that I will always value and support the CMA from whatever
> platforms my work takes me to.
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> From Glasgow to Glastonbury the conversations have been deeply stimulating
> but they are not done with. My appetite for learning about and sharing the
> experience of people right across community media remains unstinted. May
> there be many more. If you ever chance upon that remarkable pocket of
> England that lies between Bath and Wells known as the Somer Valley then do
> pop in. I’ll get the kettle on and conversation will flow.
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> Best wishes
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> Dom
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> [image: Dom 1]
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> *Dom Chambers*
> Station Manager/Sales
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> *Somer Valley FM 97.5 *
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> *Award winning radio for Local News, Sports & Great Music!*
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> *Telephone: *01761 568 004 / 01761 411755 (Ext: 150)
> *Mobile*: 07802 457 396
> *Email 1:* manager at somervalleyfm.co.uk
> *Email 2:* sales at somervalleyfm.co.uk
> *Personal Twitter:* @TheDomChambers
> *Web*: www.somervalleyfm.co.uk
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Vice-Chairman Huntingdon Carnival Committee

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